Bio:

Jayne’s father (Lieutenant Saul Vance) was an honorable officer in the Imperial Navy whose ship (the Imperial Decree) became embroiled in a scandal when her captain attempted to go rogue. Her father joined the loyalist mutineers who killed the captain and brought the ship back to Battlefleet Koronus. Sadly, his record was tarnished by the incident, and the by over-zealous Inquisitorial review that followed. After mustering out the the Navy, he settled on Footfall, where he met Jayne’s mother. Jayne’s mom died while she was young, and her father was a hard-working shift manager on the docks.

Jayne eventually got a job on the docks herself, piloting Arvus-class lighters to shuttle cargo to and from Rogue Trader vessels docked at Footfall. She was involved with Martin Kaiser before he learned of his brithright. When the time came for Martin to leave Footfall with his father, Jayne’s father was desperately sick, and she couldn’t leave him, despite Martin’s attempts to convince them both to crew on the King’s Gambit. It seems her father had long ago sworn an oath to the God-Emperor to never again set foot on a starship. The two parted on reasonable terms. Six months later, her father succumbed to the alien sickness that was ravaging him. When the King’s Gambit returned to Footfall, it was with mixed feelings that Jayne accepted Lord Captain Martin Kaiser’s invitation to crew for him.